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Alliance - Newsletter of the Kingston Bayside Primary Care Partnership
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Alliance - Winter highlights
The winter edition of Alliance is now available for download and we share some highlights with you here.
COAG – National Health Reforms
In response to the federal health reform documents and the recently announced Australia’s First National Primary Health Care Strategy, the Victorian PCPs are offering recommendations to the Federal Government to improve the health and well-being of the Victorian community. These recommendations are discussed in the latest edition of Alliance.
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Positive Mental Health Promotion Program
The Kingston Bayside Primary Care Partnership has recently adopted the Mentally Healthy WA Act-Belong-Commit Campaign as a key initiative to be implemented in Kingston and Bayside, over the next 2 years, as part of our work ‘Promoting mental health and wellbeing.
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Men's Health Workshop Series
Following the success of the Women’s Health workshop series held last year, Gamblers Help Southern, Kingston City Council, Central Bayside Community Health Services and the Kingston Bayside PCP are now working together to present a Multicultural Men’s Workshop Series.
To be held weekly in Clarinda from the 17th May to 7th June, the series will cover topics such as:
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Consumer rights |
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Financial planning/budgeting |
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Prostate cancer |
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Stress management |
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Responsible gambling |
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Sexual health |
Men from a variety of culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds will be invited to listen to guest speakers and discuss health issues relevant to them. A number of men’s groups have been consulted to ensure the content is relevant and useful.
For more information, please contact Terry Lazzarotto on 8587 0317 or tlazzarotto@cbchs.org.au
New & useful resources
Evidence and Evaluation Tools and Resources
The Health Development Unit within the Public Health Branch at the Department of Health have developed a series of evidence and evaluation tools and resources. They were developed to assist evidence informed decision making and to improve evaluation quality—particularly measurement of impacts and evaluation study design and methods. The context for their development includes:
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The underlying assumption that policy decisions informed by evidence are more likely to ultimately result in better health outcomes for the population. |
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The recommendations of the Auditor-General’s report into health promotion 2007 included the need to improve the evidence base and to distil guidance on effectiveness and interventions. |
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The need for workforce development in evidence and evaluation. |
The tools can be found at the Department of Health, Health Promotion Website under “Evidence and Evaluation”
Please download a full copy of Alliance - Autumn 2010 for more KBPCP news, resources, workforce development, and community events.
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